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TIL Okunoshima, Japan (aka Rabbit Island) has thousands of wild rabbits which began from only 5 released there in the ‘60s. Since there are no natural predators to keep the rabbit population in check and tourists feed them, the rabbits have no fear of people and will swarm them with cuddles.

lVXr TIL There hasn’t been a president with a beard in 103 years
e05Yg TIL about the Max Headroom signal hijacking of 1987.
WbL9 TIL: That hitting the ball around (and not over) the net in tennis is a completely legal move.
NapP TIL a British soldier managed to get a longbow kill during WW2, the only recorded one during the war as well as the most recent one.
x6Eow TIL of the Diderot Effect, which makes you want to buy more things when you buy one new thing.